" Lost Alphabet ,” the award-winning artist Ahmet Gunestekin’s most ambitious exhibition to date, is a cry against forced ...

Mass execution of population (between 2,500 and 5,000) of Cesena, Italy, by Breton troops of Giovanni Acuto under the ...

Under the Ottoman Empire, even in the glory days when it ruled ... replacing him with Sultan Mehmed V, an elderly nonentity who served as a ceremonial figurehead. But rather than arresting the ...

“He has empire fetish,” says the sociologist Kerem Morgül of Elon University in North Carolina. “He promises to make Turkey great again by reviving Turkey’s Ottoman Islamic heritage as a ...

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

It has made the city a hub of cultures, influenced by Romans, Byzantines, and Ottomans. This history is seen in a ...

In 1453, after his artillery corps reduced the thousand-year-old walls of Constantinople to rubble, Sultan Mehmet II claimed the city for the Ottoman Empire. Europe named the metal tubes that ...

Both men were Syrian Nestorians, a denomination of Christianity considered heretical in the eastern Roman Empire ... In 1466 he presented the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II with the medical atlas ...

Istanbul, Europe's largest city, is one of the best city break destinations in Turkey. The city has a mix of cultural ...

In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam would become a Turk, which meant accepting Islam. At the time, the word ...

The Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation as new rivalries reshape its geopolitical order. For decades, the defining conflict in the region was a “cold war” between Iran and the ...

Fung Global Fellow, Sezen Ünlüönen, will present her research on how Ottoman literary sources depicted British colonies and British colonialism in the nineteenth century focusing on Abdülhak Hamit ...